Jenna’s mother and her get into arguments over Jenna asking her mother to watch her son. Jenna has to pay for daycare after school for him while she is at work and has little money to pay for additional daycare when she would be at college classes. Her mother says that she has raised her children and does not believe that she should have to help her daughter because she received no help with her children. Jenna has a 17 year old sister who does help with watching her son, but Jenna also feels guilty always having to ask her and has no money to pay her to watch her son. Jenna and her sister are close, her sister plans on attending college at the end of her senior year and wants to study to become a doctor.
Konstantina Konstantina was twelve when her father came home one day smiling a smile she hadn’t seen since the day Nickoleta was born. He had finally worked enough to afford to send his three daughters to the America’s to become well educated Greek women. Akantha, Konstantina's older sister was three months pregnant and back to living with her father because her husband died a month earlier from a fishing accident. Their younger sister Nicoletta had just turned 10 and was showing signs of their mother's sickness. Konstantina couldn't understand why their father was sendning them away with her sisters needed constant medical attention.
From her scholastic achievements to her perfect life in the suburbs with a loving mother and stepfather. She has younger siblings who look up to her. She has never really dealt with her parents divorce and has longed for her fathers affection and approval. She contacts him and decides to spend the summer with him to rekindle their relationship. Kristina then in turn meets the wrong type of people and begins to experiment with a multitude of drugs.
AP English: Literature and Composition Major Works Data Sheet Title: The AwakeningAuthor: Kate Chopin Date of Publication: 1899 | Plot summary: * Edna Pontellier and her family (consisting of Leonce Pontellier and their two sons) are vacationing at Grand Isle, a beautiful place where her awakening is able to first blossom * She becomes fast friends with Robert Lebrun, but her marriage and children keeps her from starting an affair * Etc. | Memorable Quotes | Quote (5 required) | How does the quote use language to communicate theme? | “She grew fond of her husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that no trace of passion or excessive and fictitious warmth colored her affection, thereby threatening its dissolution.” (24)“If her talent had been ten-fold greater than it was, it would not have surprised him, convinced as he was that he had bequeathed to all of his daughters the germs of a masterful capability, which only depended on their own efforts to be directed toward successful achievement.” (82)“‘I never knew you in your home,’ he remarked. ‘I am glad you did not.’ ‘Why?’ She did not answer.” (120)“She thought of Leonce and the children. They were a part of her life.
Under the care of her grandmother, she is able to recover, but never wholly reconciles with her father because her grandmother “was never fond of Dad in the first place” (Pham 57). Chi feels safe and secure and is even reluctant to move to America because “she felt at home in Phan Thiet and she loved Grandma” (Pham 58). As Chi grows up, her new freedom allows her to become braver, and this becomes associated with her new identity as a young teenager. When Pham’s family is escaping to America, Chi shows responsibility as the oldest sibling by helping her younger brothers. “’I’ve got your bag,’ she whispered.
The books first couple of sections are told by Anse the father; Vardaman, their youngest brother; Dewey Dell, their only sister; and Vernon and Cora Tull, their wealthy neighbors. As Addie lies dying, Jewel and Darl embark on a trip for Vernon for which they will get some money. They hope to return before she dies, but unfortunately do not.
I have managed to learn nothing at all After the tragic death of Kate Morrison’s parents in the novel Crow Lake by Mary Lawson, she lives with her siblings where her older brothers take charge of the family. Her oldest brother Luke tries to find jobs and sacrifices his own education to support the family. During the time when he works in McLean’s family store, he and their daughter Sally develop affection towards each other. Consequently, Sally tries to seduce Luke to have sex with her; however Luke rejects the offer for the sake of their family. Similar story happens to Kate’s other brother, Matt, but the way they handle are the opposite.
While he had a rough start to life, with his dad dying unexpectedly when he was only three years old, he came out with a very successful life for himself. In his family, education was a vital part of life, and his mom would give them the best possible education that she could. Moore states: “My mother decided soon after our move to the Bronx that I was not going to public school. She wasn’t a snob, she was scared… But no matter how much the world around us seemed ready to crumble, my mother was determined to see us through it. When we moved to New York, she worked multiple jobs…whatever she could do to help cover her growing expenses” (47).
Martin shared very personal stories about himself, his family and his wife to Arnaud. Arnaud then took his similar appearance to Martin as an advantage to start a new life by impersonating him. When the imposter returned as Martin eight years after he left everyone was ecstatic about his return especially his beloved wife, Bertrande. Bertrande didn’t suspect her husband was actually another until after she had a child with him. When she had doubt about Martin she spoke to the priest, her sisters and also Martin’s uncle, but it wasn’t acted upon.
Maya Angelou is an insecure black girl in the American South during the 1930s but then moves over to California during the 1940s. Maya’s parents divorce when she is only three years old and then Maya and her older brother, Bailey, have to live with their grandmother, Annie Henderson, in Stamps, Arkansas. Annie, who they call Momma, runs the only store in the black section of Stamps and becomes the moral figure in Maya’s childhood. Later on the children’s father comes to Stamps when Maya is 8 and takes her and her brother to St. Louis to see their mother. Since it is the early 1900’s Maya has to deal with practically no rules since she is black and slavery was abolished about 30 years ago.